Jack Straw is a Corrupt Lying Git
24th Feb 2009 23:30:04
I am most amused by the third paragraph in the BBC's coverage of this whole situation, that being Jack Straw refusing to release critical key minutes of Cabinet Meetings concerning the Iraq War in 2003.
What on earth is in the reports? Surely, one can assume that the reports will talk about the cabinet receiving information about Saddam's masses of Nuclear weapons. Not that we've found any, but he probably hid them. We've checked under all the sofas in Baghdad though, so I think we've all given up. What can reports say that will do anything other than bolster public opinion of the Labour Government? Surely the minutes will show the cabinet members carefully considering all possibilities, pouring over information, documents, and intelligence over long, drawn-out meetings?
I mean, we're not going to know, because we can't see them, because we've been banned from doing so, by Jack Straw himself. Personally, too. He's used a ministerial veto. So, it doesn't matter what any independent or cross-party body or panel says, it's irrelevant, because Jack Straw says so. I can't really sum it up better than Ming Campbell, who said:
- Sir Ming Campbell
This government have been trying to instill within the population a culture of "if you don't have anything to hide, you have nothing to fear", whilst at the same time increasing police powers, state surveillance, and information gathering to levels this country has never seen before. They tend to leave most of the information on laptops on trains, too, but that's another issue.
Yet whenever anyone suggests it the other way, they block the release of documents left, right and centre. The massive irony is that it's their own Freedom of Information law that they're impeding. Perhaps they don't know the meaning of "freedom". It is, in short, a disgrace, but a totally expected one. I'm not even suprised when I read the story in the newspapers today, and that's the worst thing about the whole situation.
Well done, Jack Straw, you've lowered my expectations once again. Thanks.
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